A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet ...

The test flight took place in the same Mojave Desert area in California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound ...

The picture of Chuck Yeager at the top of the article has a "secret." See if you can figure it out, and then check if you are right at the end of the article! Brigadier General (ret.) Chuck Yeager ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 made history on Tuesday by becoming the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier. Before ...

About 35,000 feet (10,670 meters) over the Mojave Desert, northwest of Los Angeles, Boom Supersonic's XB-1 became the first ...

A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier Tuesday, tearing through the ...

The XB-1 breakthrough is seen as a major advancement in the development of Boom’s commercial passenger aircraft, the Overture ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 achieved a milestone by successfully breaking the sound barrier on a test flight, marking the first ...

A prototype of a passenger jet meant to succeed Concorde will attempt to break the sound barrier for the first time on ...

When the XB-1 took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port on its latest flight it was in the same historic airspace where legendary pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: On October 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first pilot to fly supersonically, flying at Mach 1.06 and just breaking the sound barrier. The X-1, ...